Shimai no nichijou (Everyday things sisters do)

Page 1: cover

Page 2

Panel 1:
Rina: Onee-chan...

Yuna: Rina...

Panel 2:
Rina: I love you...
(Hopefully, you know by now that "chu" is the sound of kissing. See the glossary for things like this)

Panel 3:
Randou: OOOOOOOO!
(Just a generic scream, nothing like "ooh baby" or something like that)

Page 3

Panel 1:
Randou: Jeez, that scared the crap out of me.

Panel 2:
Randou: Having a dirty dream like that so early in the morning... My heart's still pounding.
(Literally, he calls the dream exciting, or arousing. In other words, dirty)

Panel 3:
Randou: (It's been half a month since I woke up with this face and started living life as Yuna... and right now I'm with Rina-chan every day at school and at home.)

Panel 4:
Randou: But surprisingly, no one's found me out yet. It's the complete opposite of what I expected...

Panel 5:
Rina: Onee-chan, are you awake?

Page 4

Panel 1:
Rina: Good morning!

Panel 2:
Yuna: Good morning...
Randou: (Rina-chan...!)

Panel 3:
Randou: (Even after that dream, things are getting pretty hot...!)

Panel 4:
Rina: Hey, since today's a holiday, so let's go shopping. I saw some really cute underwear yesterday!

Randou: (Under...!)

Panel 5:
Rina: Onee-chan, you wear nothing but men's underwear because it's more comfortable, but girls should wear cute things sometimes, too!

Randou: (I can't wrap myself up with such girly crap...)
(Arrow: For now, he's wearing a padded bra)

Page 5

Panel 1:
Randou: (But when I think about it, this kind of life keeps getting better and better.)

Rina: Around 2 o'clock, okay?

Randou: (You know, living with the girl I like and seeing her every day)

Panel 2:
Omnipotent narrator: (the origin of the dream)

Rina: Onee-chan, your lips are all dry.

Panel 3:
Rina: Here, use my lip balm.

Yuna: Thanks!

Panel 4:
Randou: (It's pretty annoying, being a girl... I mean, just licking my lips should be good enough.)

Panel 5:
Yuna: Huh? Rina, you've been using this, haven't you?

Panel 5:
Rina: How embarassing... but it should be fine. We're sisters, after all...
(This translation doesn't express Rina's embarrassment very well... she's basically convincing herself that it's okay)

Randou: (In... in... INDIRECT KISS?!)
(A very Japanese concept. In a culture that's so weird about personal contact, even drinking from the same cup can be considered an indirect kiss.)

Panel 6:
Manabe: EMBA...

Page 6

Panel 1:
Manabe: ..rrassed easily, aren't you? Just with something like that. Are you really a high school student, and not in grade school?

Panel 2:
Randou: You bastard, you don't know anything about the pain of a guy who doesn't get along with girls very well... about the tears of a man who doesn't touch girls except in folk dancing class...

Manabe: You don't have to cry...

Panel 3:
Randou: Living like this, the temptation's really strong to a guy like that. Every day it's a deathmatch between reason and instinct...
(two notes here. He once again calls it "strongly arousing". And, SPOONprez wouldn't let me off without mentioning that the reason/instinct deathmatch thing happens in pretty much every issue of Super Taboo. You happy now?

Panel 4:
Manabe: Hmm? Rina-chan?

Randou: WHAT!? Wh...WHERE?!

Panel 5:
Manabe: Hahahahaha, you sure are an amusing animal! That's great, really! Heeeeheehee...

Panel 6:
Randou: Whoop, it's time to go. Don't strain yourself.

Panel 7:
Manabe: I will give you this warning.

Page 7

Panel 1:
Manabe: Being around a girl twenty-four hours a day means that it'll be easy for you to be found out.
(An interesting construction here, what he says is literally "through four six hours"... which doesn't make sense until you multiply)

Randou: I know, I know!

Panel 2:
Randou: (It means that I'm stuck between heaven and hell...)

Panel 3:
Rina: Are you ready yet?

Panel 4:
Rina: Okay, let's go!
(I love Japanese T-shirts. This one just says "MILK". Rockin')

Panel 5:
Randou: (Whoa... this is a totally different mood than the usual...)

Panel 6:
Rina: I'm really looking forward to this. I've wanted a new bra for a while, so this is just the right time.

Panel 7:
Rina: I think my breasts have gotten bigger, because my bras are a little tight now...
(Munyu... it's not in the glossary, and I don't know if I want it to be, since it's the sound of Rina feeling herself up)

Randou: (Not this again!!!)

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Panel 3:
Rina: Look at this one! It has a whirlpool on the back.

Panel 4:
Rina: Hmm, but on second thought, I don't really like it...
(small text: "it doesn't look very good with the top...")

Randou: (Haha... it's just a bust, but it still makes me feel oddly embarrassed...)

Panel 5:
Rina: But now we can finally look at the other stuff. I only have fulls, so I want to try and take on the 3/4s.

Panel 6:
Yuna: There's panties like that? High leg and 3/4s styles?

Panel 7:
Rina: What? I'm talking about bras, of course...
(small text: "A 3/4 cup")

Yuna: Uu...

Panel 8:
Yuna: Well, it is pretty convenient for bras to have hooks in the front, and there are, uh, wire brassieres too...
(arrow: "Spitting out every piece of knowledge he has")

Page 9

Panel 1:
Rina: That's strange...onee-chan, it's like you don't know anything about underwear at all...

Randou: (It's because I'm a guy that I don't know~!)
(The note under the panel: "I don't know either" -Kanou)

Panel 2:
Yuna: Oh, um, it's on purpose, yeah, on purpose!

Rina: ah!

Panel 3:
Rina: Sorry, it's my cel phone. Just a second, okay?

Randou: (RINA! ...chan)

Panel 4:
Yuna: Wait!
Randou: (Shit, I didn't think it would all go to hell because of this...)

Panel 5:
Yuna: Hmm? Where'd she go?

Panel 6:
Rina: Yeah, I knew it was strange...

Panel 7:
Rina: It's been weird since the beginning, that's not the way a girl acts at all...

Page 10

Panel 1:
Rina: That's definitely a guy!

Panel 2:
Randou: (WHAT!?)

Panel 3:
Rina: Okay, talk to you later

Randou: (Was that conversation about... me?)

Panel 4:
Rina: Oh, onee-chan...

Panel 5:
Yuna: I...is your call done?

Rina: Yeah, it was from Yukie.
(the small text is Yukie's name)

Page 11

Panel 1:
Rina: Aahh... I've spent all of my allowance already.
(Literally "my allowance has disappeared")

Panel 2:
Randou: (I'm so worried... what the hell was that phone call about? Shit, and it was starting to feel like a date, too...)

Panel 4:
Yuna: Wha...what?

Rina: Oh, nothing...

Panel 5:
Randou: (She... she's suspicious! I knew it, Rina-chan suspects that I'm a guy...)

Page 12

Panel 3:
Randou: (what's with that dirty look? She's looking at...)
(lit. "hot look")

Panel 4:
Randou: (A forbidden spot!)

Panel 5:
Rina: Let me se a little better...

Panel 6:
Yuna: NAAAAA

Panel 7:
Randou: (No, don't do it, Rina-chan! If you do that, you'll find out about my...)

Page 13

Panel 1:
Rina: I knew it! Those are my jeans. Mom must've mixed them up when she was doing laundry.

Panel 2:
Randou: (Don't scare me like that!)

Panel 3:
Randou: (Wait, maybe that was just a feint... she's really trying to find out if I have anything there, isn't she?)

Panel 4:
Guy 1: Whoa, you two are pretty cute!

Guy 2: Twins? How cool!

Panel 5:
Guy 1: If it's okay with you, wanna go get something to eat?

Guy 2: Our car's parked right over there.

Panel 6:
Randou: (Who the hell are these guys? I don't have time for this kind of shit)

Page 14

Panel 1:
Rina: Umm, we're both heading home, actually...
(small text by guy 1: "I'll take this one." by guy 2: "Okay, then this one's mine")

Guy 1: If you're just heading back, that's fine, let's go!

Panel 2:
Randou: You're too damn demanding!

Panel 3:
Randou: GET OUTTA MY SIGHT, YOU FUCKING GARBAGE!

Panel 4:
Randou: (That's the way I want to take care of it, at least... but I can't act like that in front of Rina-chan)

Panel 5:
Rina: Hey, what're you doing? That hurts!

Page 15

Panel 2:
Yuna: Wait a second...

Panel 3:
Yuna: Go home ahead of me.

Rina: Huh?!

Panel 4:
Yuna: She's not feeling very good, so it's fine if I accompany you two alone, right?

Panel 5:
Guy 2: Well, I guess it's fine. Shall we?

Guy 1: I'm thirsty, I wanna go somewhere we can get some juice.

Rina: Onee-chan!

Panel 6:
Rina: .....

Panel 7:
Guy: Here's your juice.

Page 16

Panel 1:
Guy 1: Alrighty then...

Guy 2: Where should we head?

Panel 2:
Randou: THE AFTERLIFE. BUT JUST THE TWO OF YOU...

Panel 3:
Guy 1: Wha...

Guy 2: Her mood's changed all of a sudden...

Panel 3:
Randou: Trash... don't just chase after ass all the time, you horny little monkeys!
(How dare you try that with my Rina-chan...)

Panel 4:
Guy 2: The hell're you talking about?

Panel 5:
Randou: Say it again. I dare you!

Page 17

Panel 1:
Guy 2: Ugooo...!

Panel 2:
Randou: Rina-chan's the most important person in the world to me. And as long as I'm around, rats like you won't get anywhere near her!

Panel 3:
Guy 1: What the fuck're you talking about?

Guy 2: You wanna get the shit kicked outta you?

Panel 5
Guy 1: Huh?

Panel 6:
Guy 1: You're a man? No way...

Page 18

Panel 1:
Randou: JUDGMENT!
(Sakura Taisen 3 fans may remember that Glycine keeps saying "Seibai shite kureru", or "I will pass judgment upon you!". Same principle here...)

Panel 2:
(miscellaneous screams... you get used to 'em reading Pretty Face)

Panel 3:
Randou: If you even lay a finger on my little sister, I won't let you off so easy.

Guy 1: A... transvestite?

Panel 4:
Rina: Onee-chan!

Page 19

Panel 1:
Randou: (RINA-CHAN!)
(Please, just take a moment to enjoy the background of this panel. The moon's crashing into the earth, how cool is that?)

Panel 2:
Randou: (Did she just see me... no...)

Panel 3:
Randou: (I'm done. She knows I'm a guy!)

Panel 4:
Yuna: HIIII

Panel 5:
Rina: Don't make me worry like that!

Page 20

Panel 1:
Rina: A girl following after two guys like that...

Yuna: Huh? (a girl?)

Panel 2:
Yuna: Did you... see what just--

Rina: Huh? Now that you mention it, why are those two guys lying down?

Panel 3:
Randou: (She didn't see?)
Yuna: Uh, um...

Panel 4:
Yuna: Rina, how long have you been here?

Rina: Umm... "If you even lay a finger on my little sister, I won't let you off so easy"... I think

Panel 5:
Rina: It made me happy, but a little embarrassed...

Panel 6:
Rina: You've gotten so reliable since you came back... If you were a guy, I could really fall for you...

Panel 7:
Randou: (Huh? That's a weird thing to say...)

Rina: But I should stop talking nonsense.

Page 21

Panel 1:
Yuna: Rina-chan... so you don't suspect me of anything?

Rina: Me? Why would I?

Panel 2:
Yuna: You said that something was strange when you were on the phone...

Rina: Oh, you mean about Keiko's hamster?

Panel 3:
Yuna: HAMSTER?

Panel 4:
Rina: She bought it because it was a girl, but it's weird, because it acts all rough. And when hamsters are small, it's hard to figure out if they're boys or girls.

Panel 5:
Rina: And just like we thought, it was a boy.

Randou: (If you're talking about stuff like that, say it's about animals, please!)
(Osu is a male animal, mesu is a female animal. So "osu mesu" is different from "otoko onna")

Panel 6:
Rina: Onee-chan, you're finally getting scared, aren't you? Your legs are shaking.

Yuna: Ha...haha...
(My life expectancy keeps going down... how long will I be able to live like this?)
("how long is every day going to be like this", more or less)

Panel 7:
Manabe: You can tell male and female hamsters apart by the distance between their reproductive organs and the anus. When they become adults, you can see easily by looking for the testicles.
(text by his head: "Explaining, for now")

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